Samsung device with Android 5.0 changes progressbar color

Question

Samsung devices with Android 5.0 ignore my color for the progressbar (set in styles.xml). The default blue color of samsung is used instead.

<style name="Progress">
     <item name="colorControlActivated">#000000</item>
</style>

The progressbar is in a toolbar:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
...
>
    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progress_spinner"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:indeterminate="true"
        android:theme="@style/Progress"/>

</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Any ideas?

how are you initialising the progressbars? can you post code which shows the creation of the progress bars / any relevant styles / themes? — Gil Moshayof, Mar 10 '15 at 14:01
it's the one in the question. What I meant: It's working on other Android 5.0 devices but not with samsungs.. — ddd, Dec 03 '15 at 18:03

CoolMind · Answer 1 · 2018-02-08T10:02:10.283

As far as I remember, this topic will help: https://medium.com/the-wtf-files/the-misterious-case-of-the-skewed-progressbar-75da47ddd767.

You should add an attribute: android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progressbar" to a ProgressBar and also add a drawable. It is useful for infinite ProgressBar. If it's determinate, I will research a problem and report here. Also see: How to change color in circular progress bar?.

For those who don't see a ProgressBar at all, see https://github.com/DreaminginCodeZH/MaterialProgressBar/issues/1. Maybe an "Animation scale" in Developer Options of your device is turned off.

See also: https://github.com/DreaminginCodeZH/MaterialProgressBar.

Samsung device with Android 5.0 changes progressbar color

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